Music Quotes

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

I've never feared the unexpected.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

I looked at an angel today, but the angel could not see me. The angel was more amazing than beautiful, like the best forgotten dream.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

Impulsive passion please set me free.

Joys circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

Frequent friction when love becomes political.

And my experience in the music scene had shown me that there were places for places in the world where misfits were welcome.

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

Keep it weird. They'll get it later.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

All language is an aspiration to music.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

I wish that I could fly into the sky and touch the clouds with my hands.

Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.

I am more than what they say I am.

And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

I refuse to step inside the ring and fight like a gladiator against my own. I'm not playing that game. Any woman who has survived a year or more of making music has my undying respect.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.

I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.